Life changes forever

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Amid heart-wrenching tales, there were plenty of reports that kept us optimistic: a new mum and her newborn beating the virus, a patient surviving a ventilator spell, the vaccine trials and its success.

Ever since coronavirus struck the world, all we could ever think of, say or do revolved around COVID-19. A general fatigue set in, but beyond that, there was no denying that life as we knew it – why, even death – had changed forever.
Gasping patients gone without a goodbye; family members watching funerals of loved ones on Facebook; infected couples having to leave young children in the care of others; tables turning on doctors and nurses … COVID’s trying tales were heart-wrenching.
But the unimaginable trauma notwithstanding, there were those who were counting their blessings too, whether it was a new mum beating the virus with her just-born; a patient coming off the ventilator after 20 days; or the UAE’s health care community clocking record testing rates, its researchers achieving a treatment breakthrough, and the vaccine trials in the UAE and its success.
The trials, tribulations and triumphs of UAE residents since the COVID-19 combat were many, with each tale having a telling impact not just on individuals and families, but also the community at large.